{"id":1251,"date":"2011-08-12T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2011-11-24T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T19:40:13","slug":"the_seinfeld_moment_that_every_dad_should_see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/12\/the_seinfeld_moment_that_every_dad_should_see\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seinfeld Moment That Every Dad Should See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Someone recently sent me this clip featuring Jerry Seinfeld on <em>Late Night with David Letterman<\/em>, discussing fatherhood.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a dad you need to check out this hilarious 43 second clip.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yn2e8P02v5w\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Usually I blog about what I\u2019m learning in organizational leadership, especially church leadership. But this clip struck me as not only hilarious, but also very \u201cclose to home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And it has prompted me today to share my learnings in one of the most vital leadership roles many of us ever experience; leading our families.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that, apart from loving our wives, there is no higher calling that God has given to men than to lovingly, patiently, diligently and prayerfully impact the lives of our children.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019ve seen too many families where it\u2019s tough for the dad to play that role because, as Jerry describes it, \u201cThe kids, they don\u2019t really know what you\u2019re doing there\u2026and they\u2019re trying to figure out, \u2018And what do we need this person for, exactly?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t claim to have come close to getting this right all the time, but in each season of our children\u2019s lives I\u2019ve always looked for creative ways to remain meaningfully connected with them.<\/p>\n<p>As the kids grew older one of these ways was to have a one-on-one trip away with each one. This priority is particularly poignant for me today, as I\u2019m enjoying what may be the last one of these trips.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in Chicago, taking in the U.S. version of the Global Leadership Summit, and my son Adam will be joining me. I\u2019ve already had my trips with Amy and John, so this trip with Adam would appear to be the final chapter in this parenting season.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I know I\u2019ll always be \u201cDad\u201d, and I will always love and support my kids. But in a sense this week I\u2019m celebrating the closing of an important leadership role I\u2019ve been playing for 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how to measure the impact any of this has had on my kids.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m grateful we never had a Seinfeld moment where one of them had to walk up to me and say, \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u2026is someone helping you?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently sent me this clip featuring Jerry Seinfeld on Late Night with David Letterman, discussing fatherhood. If you\u2019re a dad you need to check out this hilarious 43 second clip. Usually I blog about what I\u2019m learning in organizational leadership, especially church leadership. But this clip struck me as not only hilarious, but also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[716,715],"tags":[449,685,984],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatherhood","category-parenting","tag-family","tag-impact","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}